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there is much diversity of form and colouring amongst our sub-tropical plants, 
yet there is still that ever-recurring monotony to which a few flowering plants of 
suitable character would give relief. 
To get a stock of standard Daturas , they should be planted out in rich soil 
and well attended to in the way of watering in dry weather. They will grow 
vigorously, and send up suckers, which, from a strong plant, will grow from 3 ft. 
to 4 ft. in one season. These shoots will, in most cases, send out young roots at 
the bottom, and when taken up in the autumn should be taken off the parent 
plant, potted singly, and wintered in a cool greenhouse. In the spring, at the usual 
bedding-out time, those that have stems of the required height should have the 
point pinched out in order to encourage them to form heads; those that are not high 
enough in the stem should be trained to the required height before pinching off 
the leader, and shoots on the stems below must be carefully and continuously 
removed. By the end of the season they will have formed fair-sized heads. In 
the autumn the plants must be again repotted, the head being pruned in, and 
wintered as before ; they should then be very sparingly supplied with water 
through the winter, until they begin to show signs of growth, after which they 
can be watered more freely, 
Treated in this way, they will continue to do well for years, but will from 
year to year require larger pots to winter them in. They can be wintered in 
almost any part of a cool greenhouse, even at the back of the stage, where many 
kinds of plants would not thrive, or even live for any length of time ; and they 
would be found to well repay the labour bestowed upon them. The Fuchsia 
fulgens may be made to form standards, if managed on the plan recommended 
for the Datura .— Henry Chilman, Somerley. 
GAKDEN GOSSIP. 
S OME interesting Novelties , of which we give a summary below,were produced 
at the Cologne International Horticultural Exhibition, which was opened by 
H.I.H. the Crown Prince of Germany on August 25, and continued till 
• ^ September 26. It was held in the Gardens of the Flora Society, a short dis¬ 
tance from the city, the winter-garden, with its fino central Palms and other decorative plants, 
furnishing a central meeting-place and point of attraction. The show itself was scattered 
through several houses, little and big, a supplemental piece of land being occupied by hardy 
plants of various kind# planted out, and surrounded by covered sheds filled with machinery, 
agricultural implements, tools, and vegetable products of all kinds. The show was very 
extensive, there being nearly 3,000 exhibits, arranged under eight principal divisions:—1, 
plants; 2, vegetable products ; 3, garden architecture ; 4, garden decorations ; 5, machines and 
tools; 6, miscellaneous collections of woods, insects, &c.; 7, bouquets and artificial flowers; 
8, garden literature. There was, as usual in Continental gatherings of this character, a good 
exhibition of Palms, Cycads, and Ti’ee Ferns, but thore was a great deficiency of flowering 
plants, and very few Orchids, Crotons, Dracaenas, Nepenthes. Succulent plants, Agaves, and 
Conifers—the two last arranged in the open air—constituted the most noteworthy features of 
the exhibition. Messrs. Yeitch and Sons exhibited a very interesting collection of new and 
rare plants (not for competition), including amongst others Itottlera barbata, with Ricinus- 
like leaves and scarlet leaf-stalks; Eulalia japonica , a hardy grass, with white-striped 
leaves, likely to be an acquisition by the borders of lakes, or where an effective plant of 
medium size is required; YuccaJilamentosa angustifolia variegata; Pothos Endresii, with neat 
